As others have said, it does not really make sense to search by ZIP code for most consumers. Your chicken could come from anywhere. This is meant to check the processor for a specific package of chicken.
There are more complaints than that, but these are all closed complaints for any officer who has had at least one substantiated allegation. It's only a fraction.
There are 2018 filings in there, but many charities have fiscal years that end in Dec. IIRC, they generally file within 6 months. Given things like human error, bureaucracy and filing extensions... more should start rolling in over time.
This is neat! I thought about extracting the grants (still might), but full-text seemed like good bang for the buck. Your tools sound like they might be very useful for reporters. Have you given any thought to that? We love mapping these sorts of connections.
There are already some 2018 forms in there, but it's based on fiscal year. So a nonprofit whose FY is Dec 2018 would have had to just file last month -- and sometimes they file late or get extensions. And again, this only covers e-filed forms -- they could file on paper, in which case you'd have to use the nonprofit name search and check for a filing.
Yup. We’ve been using this data for a while to render e-filed 990s on our site and to extract highly paid employees. Now we just strip the markup out and toss it all into elasticsearch for search. It’s really interesting to surface things like grants.
I will say for personal analysis that the schema has a habit of changing, and things like grants can appear in multiple places depending on the context. What’s more, just 2/3rds of nonprofits e-file now (and I’m sure fewer and fewer the further back you go) Just some things to look out for.
What? AWS and GoDaddy are not terribly expensive. GoDaddy is incredibly common. I don't know about Rackspace. Together they make up a large chunk of the Internet as we know it.